Band : Instant Drone Factory

Album Title : Live

Label : Fünfundvierig Records – Zygatron Promotions

Distributor : Indigo Records

Release Date : 14 / 11 / 2008

Release : CD

Instant Drone Factory is a very strange and interesting band featuring German guitar player Frank Gingeleit and synthesizer and flute player Thomas Hinkel together with Japanese bass player Rie Miyazaki and drummer Morihide Sawada from Marble Sheep and with Italian vocalist Andrea Tabacco. Together they play some very strange stuff. “Summer” is a far out track with wild guitars both droning, looping while Andrea does some strange spoken word stuff that adds a very special, perhaps irritating element at times but special. “The Sweetest Flavour” is a nineteen minutes long song that seems to never end. You can feel the influence of Captain Beefheart. “Rhapsodie Chaotique” begins with a drone before the drums take and  the synthesizer dominates. The track gets really far out and psychedelic at the end. “Take a Look Around” is the fourth and last song on this album and maybe the best song. In four and a half minute the band shows what the rest of the album can’t do in 45 minutes. It’s a fractured psychedelic reggae instant composition and the only attempt to get the right tune. But overall this album suffers from the poor recording quality and over-amped instruments. It’s a little bit avant-garde with a stoner rock influences but far from good.

60/100

Guido Claes.